Preparation for Midterm Name: ______________

Put all the letters for each area in the right box.
For land; a) cash crops b) subsistence farming c) bread basket
For society; d) plantations e) towns f) cities
For reason; g) $$, money h) religion i) $$, freedom
For peoples; j) many types k) blacks and whites l) English people
New England Middle South
Land
Society
Reason
Peoples
____ 1. What was NOT an effect of the end of the French and Indian war?
A) The French lost all lands East of the Mississippi River
B) The Indians became stronger and worked together more with the colonists
C) It promoted new American leaders like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin
D) The British passed a Proclamation that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians
____ 2. Which colony was a king’s gift to a person or persons, who then owned all the land and
controlled the colony’s government?
A) A royal colony C) A charter colony
B) A proprietary colony D) A joint-stock colony
____ 3. The Navigation Acts were
A) Laws that controlled trading, exporting, and importing between colonies and mother country
B) Laws that set up the colonial government
C) Laws that governed exploration and traveling.
D) Laws that made the first schools in America
____ 4. Goods that are sold to another country are called
A) Imports B) Exports C) Duties D) Tariffs
____ 5. The Great Awakening resulted in a renewed interest in
A) Science B) Mercantilism C) Religion D) Conflict
____ 6. What was not a cash crop that developed in colonial America?
A) Indigo B) Coffee C) Rice D) Tobacco
____ 7. The most terrible part of the triangular trade was
A) The Southern Route C) The merchant trade rout
B) The Middle Passage D) Fishing trade
____ 8. The House of Burgesses is best described as
A) The first permanent building in the United States
B) The place where slaves were sold in Jamestown
C) A religious group that sought freedom
D) The first form of self-government in the United States
____ 9. Olaudah Equiano’s importance was that of a
A) Runaway slave B) Enlightenment thinker C) Iroquois chieftain D) ex-indentured servant
____ 10. George Washington became most famous first for
A) Becoming governor of the Virginia colony
B) Convincing the Iroquois Confederacy to help the colonies against France
C) Attacking the French with a rough group of militia
D) Defeating Chief Pontiac and his forces
____ 11. Benjamin Franklin is an example of an American colonist strongly influenced by

A) Traditional Medicine C) The unfairness of censorship

B) The Great Awakening D) The Enlightenment
____ 12. The Albany Plan of Union was not approved by the colonies because

A) It called for the colonies to declare their independence from Britain

B) Most colonists did not consider the western lands valuable
C) It diminished the strength of the united colonial government
D) Colonies were not willing to give up any of their power
____ 13. How did most Americans respond to the Navigation Acts?

A) They began importing more British goods C) They began smuggling goods
B) They plotted for the Glorious Revolution D) They believed they gave greater representation